Daily Archives: April 8, 2008

Not wishing to steal the IRS’s limelight next week, the American Film Institute has opened the public beta of its ScreenNation™ website a full week early. So head right over to the ScreenNation™ site and check it out, no password needed. Junior and Senior high school students can upload videos and participate BUT any age

Live Blogging Matt Monjan, Mid-Atlantic Regional Director of VA, MD, NJ, OH, and PA, is hosting a very interactive, hands on session on how to build a really bigger and better builder. The directions are simple: Log into your Discovery Educator Network account. (And if you are not a Discovery Educator, you want to join

Live Blogging After lunch, the learning resumed with Scott Kinney’s presentation, The Media Evolution. You can find his slide show here. Scott connected media and how it supports diversity to people across the globe and how they interact with media is fundamentally different. If you miss your favorite TV show that is not a Discovery

Live Blogging Scott Kinney, Vice-President of Outreach & Professional Development, discusses ways to meet our growing diversity of learners by using differentiated instruction using Discovery Education products. Scott began with a test of our knowledge with a quiz identifying demographics of changing student populations. Questions covered percentage of ESL students entering school (20), percentage of

Blogging Live As Jennifer Dorman, organizer of this very special event, stated in her blog, the DEN SuperSTARS are in beautiful Buck County at IU 22 for a Day of Discovery with 130 educators. Our keynote presenter, Steve Dembo, began with a great tool, Poll Everywhere, so we could text if we might be a

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Many of you may have realized, to your chagrin, that the Xtranormal site has been shut down as of July 31st. I searched for alternatives and found Digital Films . I have only been playing around with it for a few hours, but have not noticed a feature that allows characters to speak typed text

In this installment of One Idea With: Discovery Education Senior Vice President Scott Kinney interviews Dr. Latoya Dixon and Dr. Mike Waiksnis, Co-Principals of the Rowan-Salisbury School System’s Knox Middle School in North Carolina. Drs. Dixon and Waiksnis’ One Idea focuses on how their different personal and leadership styles support their work as co-principals. Watch the video below to learn

One of my least favorite trends in education is hatin’ on PowerPoint. Visual presentation in and of itself isn’t the problem! A quick glance of Google search results for “PowerPoint meme” sums up the anti-PowerPoint narrative sweeping the web: PowerPoints can be dreadfully boring, and relying solely on teacher-centered instruction is problematic. That being